| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Ascending | 1:03:57 - The Duke and Duchess ascend | ascending | ballroom | double exposure | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | stairs | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Subito) | 1:52:22 - Soldiers climb the stairs | ascending | conflict | landlady | leading lady | not mickey-moused | room | soldier | suspect | tense |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Sneaking | 0:45:13 - Criminals steal furs | ascending | carrying | chromatic parallelism | crime | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | gangster | pedal tone | robbery | sneaking | sneaky | stairs | stealing | store | thief | walking |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going up a ladder | 1:17:41 - Rocky climbs up an escape ladder | agitated | ascending | chromatic parallelism | climbing | conflict | dramatic | gangster | ladder | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | sequence | street | up |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Sanctus (Maestoso) | 1:36:06 - Jerry and the boys walk up the stairs | angelic | ascending | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | leading man | priest | resolution | room | stairs | teenager | The End | transcendence | triumphant | up |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Determined) | 0:47:56 - Marlowe enters the apartment building | arriving | ascending | bold | determined | heroic | investigating | investigation scene | leading lady | leading man | private eye | stairs | street | walking |
| Crime School (1938) | Policeman walks up stairs | 0:12:47 - Cop walks up the stairs to Sue's flat | advance plot | ascending | building | mickey-mousing | mysterious | police | quartal chord | up |
Crime School (1938) | Explosion | 0:57:21 - Mark pulls Squirt out of the boiler room | action scene | ascending | boiler room | destruction | dissonant bass | dramatic | exploding | explosion | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Mark Saves Boy | 0:57:29 - Mark carries Squirt up the stairs | action scene | ascending | authentic cadence | dissonant bass | hero | heroic | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | walking |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | action scene | ascending | down | dramatic | falling | friend | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally goes upstairs | 0:09:28 - Wally ascends the spiral staircase | action scene | ascending | dramatic | friend | mickey-mousing | room | spiral staircase | stairs |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Runs upstairs | 1:24:04 - Veda runs up the stairs | angry | antagonist | ascending | conflict | daughter | mickey-mousing | room | stern |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Tragic) | 1:24:04 - Veda watches her daughter leave | angry | ascending | conflict | heroine | leading lady | leaving | mickey-mousing | room | stern |
